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Posted By: chris1234 Books on (Race) Car Engineering? Oh boy. - 07/07/09 10:54 AM
Hey, anyone have a young race car enthusiast out there requesting books on engineering one? Any good suggestions? I was surprised to find several on amazon, but not sure what would work well for ds9.
Found this one; I will probably try the library first.
http://www.normas.com/SAE/pages/R-308.html

any thoughts/websites/book ideas?
Thanks!
Posted By: Austin Re: Books on (Race) Car Engineering? Oh boy. - 07/07/09 03:05 PM
Heh.

Mr W loves racecars. We kept him occupied on the last plan trip with car magazines. He will sit for hours watching Nascar.

Have you thought of taking DS to a Nascar event? Mr W is going with granddad to the race in November here in TX.

Have you looked around on http://www.nascar.com/ for some videos?

Anyway - you might want to supply something simple as well as a technical dictionary as well:


http://www.amazon.com/Road-Track-Illustrated-Automotive-Dictionary/dp/0837601436/ref=pd_sim_b_1

http://www.amazon.com/How-Cars-Work...mp;s=books&qid=1246979012&sr=1-1

And then more illustrative:

http://www.amazon.com/Fast-Cars-How...p;s=books&qid=1246979012&sr=1-12









Yes, Dh has been pondering a Nascar event, the website sounds like the perfect place to start seriously looking. (Why didn't we think of that??)

I was afraid just throwing this book at him would be too much, and some pre-reading was in order, but completely not sure what.
He was psyched about the one book I showed him but I don't want to squash his interest by offering a book way above his level.
Thanks for the ideas, really appreciate it!

When my DS7 became obsessed with engines last year we discovered "coffee table" books in the adult non-fiction section of the library. They had an amazing depth of information in small manageable chunks and tons of pictures.
Posted By: JJsMom Re: Books on (Race) Car Engineering? Oh boy. - 07/08/09 04:12 PM
When you do find good ones, write them down somewhere. DS is only 5, and isn't quite to the engineering questions just yet. But I know they are coming soon.
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